46. DITCH Your Shoulds & START Listening to Your Body
12/21/20 • 33 min
Feel like you’re always pushing for more, more, more? Too much of anything, even a workout routine is harmful to your body. Self-care also means letting yourself lay back and relax, not just actively working out. A healthy lifestyle should be a mix of what makes you happy!
In this episode of Girls Gone Healthy, I speak with Samantha Kellgren, a certified health coach who used to be an avid marathon runner but got caught up in some of the extremes and lost her periods. She now helps others find their balance, stop obsessing, and start living. She shares her personal health and fitness journey from obsessive extremes to a balanced lifestyle where she gets to do what is good for her.
Listen in to learn the importance of finding and sticking to healthy habits that are good for you without comparing your progress with others.
Key Takeaways:
- How fitness extremities can negatively affect your body in the long run.
- How to find new things to enjoy to break the routine of fitness extremes.
- Think of what you can cut back on or add to your routine to help you smoothly transition from intense exercising to gentler exercising.
- The importance of doing what makes you happy rather than what you feel you should be doing.
- Learn to do what is good for you and not expect to get the results of others.
- The power of having control in workouts and eating habits you like.
Episode Timeline:
- [2:09] Samantha narrates how she fell in love and enjoyed running since college and when it started becoming an issue.
- [8:47] How she found and adjusted to new ways that she enjoyed outside of intense running.
- [14:57] How to add or reduce activities in your exercising routine to change and find a balance.
- [22:50] How Samantha learned and developed healthy eating habits.
- [28:58] How to be comfortable doing the workout routines that are workable for you.
Quotes:
- “Scaling back is seen like letting go when it can be what you need or what you want.”- Samantha [17:53]
- “Our bodies are totally different and we have to do what is good for us and not expect to get someone else’s results.”- Samantha [22:14]
Connect with Samantha!
Website: https://simplywellcoaching.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/simplywellcoaching/
Come join our fitness community: https://bit.ly/2PZ2zTC
Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode and please leave a 5 star review if you enjoyed the show!
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feel like you’re always pushing for more, more, more? Too much of anything, even a workout routine is harmful to your body. Self-care also means letting yourself lay back and relax, not just actively working out. A healthy lifestyle should be a mix of what makes you happy!
In this episode of Girls Gone Healthy, I speak with Samantha Kellgren, a certified health coach who used to be an avid marathon runner but got caught up in some of the extremes and lost her periods. She now helps others find their balance, stop obsessing, and start living. She shares her personal health and fitness journey from obsessive extremes to a balanced lifestyle where she gets to do what is good for her.
Listen in to learn the importance of finding and sticking to healthy habits that are good for you without comparing your progress with others.
Key Takeaways:
- How fitness extremities can negatively affect your body in the long run.
- How to find new things to enjoy to break the routine of fitness extremes.
- Think of what you can cut back on or add to your routine to help you smoothly transition from intense exercising to gentler exercising.
- The importance of doing what makes you happy rather than what you feel you should be doing.
- Learn to do what is good for you and not expect to get the results of others.
- The power of having control in workouts and eating habits you like.
Episode Timeline:
- [2:09] Samantha narrates how she fell in love and enjoyed running since college and when it started becoming an issue.
- [8:47] How she found and adjusted to new ways that she enjoyed outside of intense running.
- [14:57] How to add or reduce activities in your exercising routine to change and find a balance.
- [22:50] How Samantha learned and developed healthy eating habits.
- [28:58] How to be comfortable doing the workout routines that are workable for you.
Quotes:
- “Scaling back is seen like letting go when it can be what you need or what you want.”- Samantha [17:53]
- “Our bodies are totally different and we have to do what is good for us and not expect to get someone else’s results.”- Samantha [22:14]
Connect with Samantha!
Website: https://simplywellcoaching.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/simplywellcoaching/
Come join our fitness community: https://bit.ly/2PZ2zTC
Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode and please leave a 5 star review if you enjoyed the show!
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Previous Episode
45. LIFE AFTER SPORT.... NOW WHAT?
Did you want to move onto the next chapter of your life once you retired from competitive sports? Don’t we all...but you have to ask yourself if closing that chapter really is the best thing for your health. Think about it; you no longer have coaches, nutritionists, a training schedule, and all the other benefits that come with being a competing athlete. I would say you have an even bigger responsibility of taking care of yourself now more than ever if you ask me.
In this episode of Girls Gone Healthy, I talk about my book writing project which covers the topic of life after sport. Listen in to learn the importance of maintaining health and fitness in your life after sport.
Key Takeaways:
- How exercise is first introduced to us as a sport.
- The different unhealthy extremes during and after a sport, and why you should learn balancing in real life.
- The importance of keeping the athlete’s lifestyle even after retiring from the sport.
- Why you feel like you’re failing when you can’t take care of yourself every day as you did as an athlete.
- Reapplying the same things you enjoyed in sports to the next chapter of your life.
Episode Timeline:
- [3:41] How some athletes abandon their athlete identity once they leave the sport.
- [5:47] Why you should learn to take care of yourself after your athletic career.
- [9:59] I challenge you not to cut off completely your former sport.
Quotes:
- “Your first task after you’re done with sports is taking care of yourself.” [5:40]
- “How you take care of yourself as an athlete is different from everyday life.” [8:33]
Come join our fitness community: https://bit.ly/2PZ2zTC
Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode and please leave a 5 star review if you enjoyed the show!
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Next Episode
47. What Are You Waiting For?? Workout Motivation to Give You That Push You Need
Need a kick in the pants to GET UP and GET AFTER IT? Look no further.
Leave a review if you'd like to hear more of these episodes!
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
If you like this episode you’ll love
Episode Comments
Generate a badge
Get a badge for your website that links back to this episode
<a href="https://goodpods.com/podcasts/live-your-personal-best-workout-motivation-and-routine-building-for-cu-270168/46-ditch-your-shoulds-and-start-listening-to-your-body-32379929"> <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/goodpods-images-bucket/badges/generic-badge-1.svg" alt="listen to 46. ditch your shoulds & start listening to your body on goodpods" style="width: 225px" /> </a>
Copy